Paper box



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H. Si MUNSON. PAPER BOX No. 467,336. Patented Jan. 19, 1892.

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H. S. MUNSON.

PAPER BOX Patented Jan. 19, 1892.

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HARVEY S. MUNSON, OF NEW HAVEN, CONNECTICUT.

PAPER BOX.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 467,336, dated January19, 1892. Application filed May 25, 1891- Serial No. 393,972. (Nomodel.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, HARVEY S. MUNSON, of New Haven,in the county of NewHaven'an d State of Connecticut, have invented new Improvements in PaperBoxes; and I do hereby declare the following, when taken in connectionwith accompanying drawings and the letters of reference marked thereon,to be a full, clear, and exact description of the same, and which saiddrawings constitute part of this specification, and represent, in

Figure 1, a perspective View of the box without the cover. Fig. 2represents the blank from which the box is made, broken lines of thisfigure indicating the formation of the cover as an integral part of thebox; Fig. 3,a longitudinal central section cutting on line a: 00 of Fig.2, showing the ends with their flaps turned up; Fig. 4, a top Viewshowing the ends and sides as turned up, with the side flaps projectingbeyond the ends and the said side flaps represented in broken lines asturned inward against the outside of the ends; Fig. 5, a verticalsection on line a: so of Fig. 4, representing the flaps of the ends asturned down over and outside of the side flaps. Figs. 6, 7, S, 9, and 10represent the previous construction upon which this invention is animprovement.

This invention relates to an improvement in that class of boxeswhich aremade from paper having one surface coated with metal and so that in themake-up of the box the interior of the box may present a metallicsurface, the object of such metallic surface being to protect thecontents of the box from direct contact with the paper, paper beingporous and liable to absorb from the contents where the contents aresubject to such action by the paper, or to protect the contents from thedeleterious effects arising from the porous character of the paper, suchbox being specially adapted for samples of tea, coffee, and otherpurposes. The paper for such boxes has the surface covered with foilpreparatory to the making of the boxes, the box being cut from thesheet, one side of the blank present ing a paper surface and the otherside the metallic surface. The adhesive material usually employed in themanufacture of these boxes to secure the parts together will not adhereto this metallic surface. The blank for the boxes of this character areusually cut as seen in Fig. 6, the solid lines indicating the cuts andthe broken lines the scores.

A represents the part which is to form the bottom; B, one side; 0, theopposite side; D, one end, and E the opposite end. The side B is cutwith a flap F at each end and the side 0 with a fiap G at each endcorresponding to the flaps F of the side D. The flaps F G are separatedfrom the ends D E by cutsr The blank thus cut is folded into'box shapeby turning up the sides from the bottom, then turning the flaps F Ginward, as seen in Fig. 7, and then turning the two ends D E up againstthe flaps F and G, as seen in Fig. 8; but as the inside of the ends D Epresent a metal surface to the outside paper surface of the flaps F G,if adhesive material be applied between the two surfaces, they will notproperly adhere. It is therefore necessary to apply some device tosecure the ends to the flaps, and this is usually done by pasting uponthe outside a strip of paper H, one side of which has a metal surface,substantially the same as that of the box. This metal surface isoutside, and the paper surface is attached by the usual adhesivematerial to the paper surface of the end, as E in Fig. 9, to which itreadily adheres, then this strip H is folded inward over the flaps, asF, (see Fig. 10,) and this flap turned inside the box presents the samemetallic surface as the rest of the box, and thus folded over theturned-up end and the turned-in flaps, holds them in their properposition and secures them together. While this accomplishes a desiredresult, it adds materially to the cost of manufacture of the box andalso detracts from the general appearance of the box.

The object of my invention is a construction of box from paper havingone surface covered with metal and in which the flaps cut for securingthe box in the set-up condition are adapted to be folded so that theirpaper surfaceswill meet corresponding paper surface 011 correspondingparts of the box and so that the adhesive material may be introducedbetween such paper surfaces, and thereby avoid the application of thisindependent strip or binding, and yet produce a neat and tasteful box.To this end the inface.

vention consists in the construction of the box, as hereinafterdescribed, and particularly recited in the claim.

The blank is formed, as seen in Fig. 2, the solid lines indicating cutsin the blank and broken lines scores. That portion marked a is thebottom, I) b the two sides, each of which has alongitudinally-projecting flap c at both ends.

d 01 represent the two ends, which extend from the bottom a and whichare separated by cuts-e from the flaps c. The projections from the endsof the bottom are substantially double the length required for theheight of the ends of the box, so as to form a flapf, projecting fromeach end cl. The blank thus prepared and scored, as indicated in brokenlines, the ends d, with their flaps, are turned up, as seen in Fig. 3,the fine line indicating the metallic surface of the paper, then thesides are turned up, as seen in Fig. 4, the flaps c projecting beyondthe turned-up ends d. The flaps c c are then turned inward outside theends (Z, as represented in broken lines, Fig. 4. Then the flaps ff areturned outward and down over the flaps c, as seen in Fig. 5, themetallic surface being the inside of the box and the outside presentinga paper sur- The outside of the flaps 0 when turned in present the papersurface outward, and the fiapf when turned outward presents its papersurface next to the outer surface of the flaps c. The adhesive materialbeing applied to these meeting paper surfaces, they readily adhere, andthe box is complete and presents a neat and finished appearance. Theconstruction is much simplified from that of the previous constructionof this class of boxes, and the box is very much stronger, because ofthe perfect union which is formed between the paper surfaces of theflaps c and f, the flapsf being integral parts of the box.

I have illustrated the box as made separate from the cover; but thecover may be formed as a part of the box by a corresponding extensionfrom one side, as represented in broken lines, Fig. 2, a common andwellknown construction, not necessary to be described as whether or notthe cover be made an integral part of the box is immaterial to thisinvention.

I claim The herein-described paper box, made from a single piece ofpaper having-one side covered with metal and the other side presenting anon-metallic or paper surface, consisting of a bottom a, two sides I)1), two ends dd, the sides constructed with longitudinallyprojectingflaps c at each end, and the ends (1 constructed with flaps f projectingfrom their outer edges, the flaps c of the sides folded against theoutside of the ends d, and the flaps f folded down over the outside ofthe said flaps 0, the said flaps f presenting their non-metallic surfaceto the corresponding non-metallic surface of the flaps 0, substantiallyas described.

In testimony whereof I have signed this specification in the presence oftwo subscrib-

